Cincinnati police said they received a bomb warning at 5:18 p.m. from an anonymous caller using a mall pay phone.

Tower Place closes at 5 p.m. on Sundays, but several businesses in the building remain open later.

The mall was expected to reopen with normal hours today.

Chased car crashes, driver in hospital

SYMMES TOWNSHIP - A police chase Sunday afternoon ended in a crash for the third time in the region in less than a week.

Loveland Police received a report at 12:16 p.m. of a reckless motorist driving a gold Saturn on West Loveland Avenue, officials said.

Officer Kyle Bibelhausen, 26, saw the car and pursued it onto Loveland-Madeira Road, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

The 2004 Saturn's driver, Timothy Champion, 26, of Dayton, Ohio, lost control north of Hopewell Road, police said, and struck a steel pole in a gas station parking area. Bibelhausen's cruiser then struck Champion's car, according to the sheriff's office.

Champion was taken by helicopter to University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition Sunday, according to police. Bibelhausen was not hurt.

On Friday, a Bond Hill man was charged after a police chase that began in Mount Healthy ended with an accident on North Bend Road. Wednesday, a Kennedy Heights woman died during a police chase of a purse-snatching suspect whose vehicle crashed into another car.

Police await autopsy on body from river

CONSTANCE - Boone County police say a man's body was retrieved from the Ohio River Sunday and the case is being treated as a homicide.

An unnamed Anderson Ferry employee saw the body in the river about 10:45 a.m. near a moored ferryboat at 4030 River Road landing, Boone County Sheriff's officials said.

The body was that of a clothed, white male, police said.

The body was taken to St. Luke Hospital East in Fort Thomas for an autopsy, officials said.

Man kills himself after police standoff

MIDDLETOWN - A five-hour standoff Saturday ended when a man shot himself to death inside an apartment, police said.

Sgt. Jim Cunningham said police outside the apartment on Audubon Drive heard a muffled sound at about 8:10 p.m. and found the body of Christopher Bolling, 35, in an upstairs bedroom.

Police from Middletown, Monroe and Trenton arrived at about 3 p.m. after Bolling called his girlfriend, Shawna Parrish, from the apartment, Cunningham said.

Parrish, 27, had called police after Bolling was spotted an hour earlier walking along Todhunter Road carrying a shotgun, Cunningham said.